{"id":2333,"date":"2015-03-04T07:42:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2333"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:12:08","slug":"lincolns-greatest-speech-150-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln&#8217;s greatest speech &#8211; 150 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His second Inaugural Address &#8211; here&#39;s an excellent &#8211; 15 paragraphs &#8211; short essay from The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Public Discourse:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2015\/03\/14580\/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&amp;utm_campaign=2d89259457-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-2d89259457-84114469\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Lincoln\u2019s second inaugural address, 150 years old today, is as pertinent as ever. It reminds us that we must resist the poisonous temptation to see those with whom we disagree as bitter enemies even as we vigorously defend the moral truths that ought to guide our public life. <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cWith malice toward none; with charity for all\u2026\u201d It was a civic gesture as unexpected then as it is needed now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One hundred and fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln stood on the eastern portico of the U.S. Capitol and delivered a few words\u2014703, to be precise\u2014at his Second Inaugural. The speech remains the most celebrated inaugural address in our history. Fredrick Douglass, not always an admirer of Lincoln, called it a \u201csacred effort.\u201d Lincoln himself acknowledged it was filled with \u201clots of wisdom\u201d and predicted it would \u201cwear as well as\u2014perhaps even better than\u2014any thing I have produced.\u201d From an otherwise self-deprecating man who had already authored the instantly classic Gettysburg Address, this is no small admission.<\/p>\n<p>Hit the link for the rest of the essay. A great short biography of Lincoln is&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Malice-Toward-None-Abraham-Lincoln\/dp\/0060924713\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1425472145&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=with+malice+toward+none\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln<\/a> . I read it 25 plus years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His second Inaugural Address &#8211; here&#39;s an excellent &#8211; 15 paragraphs &#8211; short essay from The Public Discourse: Lincoln\u2019s second inaugural address, 150 years old today, is as pertinent as ever. It reminds us that we must resist the poisonous temptation to see those with whom we disagree as bitter enemies even as we vigorously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8234,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2333\/revisions\/8234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}